Books, Arts & Manners: In Pluralist, Christian America

The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, by Richard John Neuhaus (Eerdmans, 280 pp., $16.95)

“When I hear the term ‘Christian America,’ I see barbed wire,” says a “rabbi friend” of Richard John Neuhaus. Neuhaus is too polite to point out that Jewish immigration here peaked in the days when this was, unequivocally, “Christian America,” or that Christian-baiting ranks with maumauing the flak-catchers as a source of minority-group fun and profit. It’s safe, because Christians are so Christian.

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The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, by Richard John Neuhaus (Eerdmans, 280 pp., $16.95)

“When I hear the term ‘Christian America,’ I see barbed wire,” says a “rabbi friend” of Richard John Neuhaus. Neuhaus is too polite to point out that Jewish immigration here peaked in the days when this was, unequivocally, “Christian America,” or that Christian-baiting ranks with maumauing the flak-catchers as a source of minority-group fun and profit. It’s safe, because Christians are so Christian.